Full title
Crania Ægyptiaca Or, Observations on Egyptian Ethnography Derived from Anatomy, History and the Monuments
Language
en
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by deaurider, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2019-06-21
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1799–1851
A Philadelphia physician and natural scientist, he became widely known for collecting and measuring human skulls in work that later drew lasting criticism for its role in scientific racism. His name now appears as often in debates about bias in science as it does in the history of American anthropology.
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